Quotes 21 till 40 of 104.
-
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
-
He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
Dracula (1897) Dr. John Seward -
He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
-
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
-
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
-
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.
-
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
-
I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
-
I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
-
If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.
On War (1832) -
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
-
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
-
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
-
It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged.
-
It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
-
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
-
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
-
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
-
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
-
Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
All weakness famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 2)
